Sullivan, Jere.

The Drinks of Yesteryear. A Mixology. Being the 200 authentic favorite formulas of a pre-Volstead "Wine Clerk" who smilingly served all men and Yale men and all their goodly company. Whatsoever "little hearts desire.

N.p [New Haven]: Jere Sullivan, (1930).

Octavo, 51 pages. First and only edition of this rare prohibition-era cocktail book. The front endpapers sport a recipe in a contemporary hand for a non-alcoholic mint julep. Contains a foreword, directions and recipes for hundreds of drinks, a guide to different types of cocktails including Cocktails, cobblers, coolers, cordials, daisies, flips, fizzes, freezes, highballs, juleps, punches, rickeys, smashes, sours, sangarees and toddies." With an index, and a note entitled "How and When Wines Were Served." The Yale-inspired "Copper Kettle Punch" is here published for the first time. Sullivan practiced bartending in Boston, New York, Washington D.C., and finally (before The Drought") at a "Yale world-famous hostelry in New Haven, Connecticutt." Some wear to the gold-printed brown wrappers, especially at edges, but very clean and fresh internally. Near very good. Rare. [OCLC locates two copies only, at the Culinary Institute of America and at UC Davis].